Snowflake
Vase
2003 (made)
2003 (made)
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Ovoid glass vase, slightly wider at the shoulders and with an attached clear glass blue-tinted rim around the opening in the top. The main body of the vase is made up of pentagonals of clear glass, each with distorted, radiating white stripes, partly tinted purple or blue. This has achieved by picking up sections of prepared pentagonal canes with a stripy pattern, on a clear glass bubble which is then re-heated and 'marvered' (made smooth by repeatedly rolling over a smooth surface while hot) and expanded by blowing. The base has been ground flat.
Object details
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| Title | Snowflake (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Mosaic glass build up of filigree canes, free blown |
| Brief description | Vase, 'Snowflake', Baltic Sea Glass (Maibritt Jönsson and Pete Hunner), Bornholm, Denmark, 2003 |
| Physical description | Ovoid glass vase, slightly wider at the shoulders and with an attached clear glass blue-tinted rim around the opening in the top. The main body of the vase is made up of pentagonals of clear glass, each with distorted, radiating white stripes, partly tinted purple or blue. This has achieved by picking up sections of prepared pentagonal canes with a stripy pattern, on a clear glass bubble which is then re-heated and 'marvered' (made smooth by repeatedly rolling over a smooth surface while hot) and expanded by blowing. The base has been ground flat. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | "JÖNSSON + HUNNER 2003 BORNHOLM DENMARK 3.8" diamond-point engraved on the side, just above the base
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| Credit line | Given by David Damant |
| Production | Acquired with help of the makers; signed by both Maibritt Jönsson and Pete Hunner, as they both work together on most of the pieces made at Baltic Sea Glass. In the book Jönsson and Hunner: Artisans of Light, 2003, the piece is depicted on p. 19 and attributed to Pete Hunner. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jönsson and Hunner: Artisans of Light, Bornholm (Bornholms Kunstmuseum) Denmark, 2003, p. 19 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.362-2009 |
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| Record created | January 10, 2011 |
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